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Lawmakers, you will have to explain what you have done. What will you do then? Your destruction is coming from a faraway country. Where will you run for help? Your money and your riches will not help you. You will have to bow down like a prisoner. You will fall down like a dead man, but that will not help you. God will still be angry and ready to punish you.

God Will Punish Assyria’s Pride

The Lord says, “I will use Assyria like a stick. In my anger I will use Assyria to punish Israel.

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What will you do on the day of reckoning,(A)
    when disaster(B) comes from afar?
To whom will you run for help?(C)
    Where will you leave your riches?
Nothing will remain but to cringe among the captives(D)
    or fall among the slain.(E)

Yet for all this, his anger is not turned away,(F)
    his hand is still upraised.

God’s Judgment on Assyria

“Woe(G) to the Assyrian,(H) the rod(I) of my anger,
    in whose hand is the club(J) of my wrath!(K)

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